Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
LORD BYRONIn solitude, when we are least alone.
More Lord Byron Quotes
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Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
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Eternity forbids thee to forget.
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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.
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We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
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Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.
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Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please, the more because they preach in vain
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The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.
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Opinions are made to be changed or how is truth to be got at?
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And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music… Speak to me!
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I awoke one day to find myself famous.
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The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
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Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
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Hatred is the madness of the heart.
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
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That music in itself, whose sounds are song, The poetry of speech.
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The busy have no time for tears.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire – in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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What’s drinking? A mere pause from thinking!
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The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur’d for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,–at which my soul aches to think,– Intoxicated with eternity.
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I do not believe in any religion, I will have nothing to do with immortality. We are miserable enough in this life without speculating upon another.
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Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
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The devil was the first democrat
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If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself…that a tiger is an optical illusion–well, he will find out he is wrong.
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